Hispanics were hip hop from day one because they were living in the same areas, but did they contribute any real technical input, because I understand they were more like bystanders who just happened to be there and witness the birth of an art form.
Basically true
In fact, their input was minimal at best because their hispanic background did not embrace Black culture.
I can't cosign that though. The reason their early impact didn't exist was because the music of Disco & Funk/HipHop was foreign to them. Puerto Ricans listened to Disco and Funk but they rarely made records in those genres (they did some latin funk, latin soul, and disco but they were mainly doing Salsa around this time). They were self conscious of their names and accents and how the black people would percieve them trying to get on the Mic. It's not like Ricans and Blacks were new to one another in the 1970's lol. In NYC, Cubans, Ricans and Black people had been playing music together going back to the 1930's.
Its no different to Europeans claiming they are responsible or had a hand in ancient Egypt because they want the glory.
Bad analogy lol. Europeans had nothing to do with Egyptians but the street culture that led to HipHop always had Ricans around from the gang culture days.The people in the vid below are all Ricans and Blacks.
Ghetto Brothers (pred Rican but with non-spanish speaking blacks)
Black Spades (pred black but you had Ricans and even some whites! My moms brother (RIP) was down with the spades)
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Bonus footage
Young Mr Wigglez on the right
? That's only gonna make things worse instead of standing by horrible thread topics...
